A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy : Timber Trees, Fruits, Volume 1 |
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... appearance of the tree , as well as the quality of the timber , varies with the species , and also with the situation in which it grows . Generally speaking , the timber is the more hard and durable the colder the situation is , and the ...
... appearance of the tree , as well as the quality of the timber , varies with the species , and also with the situation in which it grows . Generally speaking , the timber is the more hard and durable the colder the situation is , and the ...
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... appearance of the country . If the sovereigns of Europe were to be designated each by some title characteristic of the nature of their dominions , we might call the Swedish monarch Lord of the Woods , because , in surveying his ...
... appearance of the country . If the sovereigns of Europe were to be designated each by some title characteristic of the nature of their dominions , we might call the Swedish monarch Lord of the Woods , because , in surveying his ...
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... appearance of a floating village , composed of twelve or fifteen little wooden huts , on a large platform of oak and deal timber . They are fre- quently eight or nine hundred feet long , and sixty or seventy in breadth . The rowers and ...
... appearance of a floating village , composed of twelve or fifteen little wooden huts , on a large platform of oak and deal timber . They are fre- quently eight or nine hundred feet long , and sixty or seventy in breadth . The rowers and ...
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... appearance on the leaves , and especially on the branches , it will never come to maturity . Care must be taken , however , not to mistake the pollen for this disease . The pollen appears only when the male flowers are in bloom ; it has ...
... appearance on the leaves , and especially on the branches , it will never come to maturity . Care must be taken , however , not to mistake the pollen for this disease . The pollen appears only when the male flowers are in bloom ; it has ...
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... appearance , and is always in leaf , it has been introduced more generally perhaps than the quality of the timber deserves . The timber is white , soft , and far from durable . The American spruces are , the Hemlock Spruce , the white ...
... appearance , and is always in leaf , it has been introduced more generally perhaps than the quality of the timber deserves . The timber is white , soft , and far from durable . The American spruces are , the Hemlock Spruce , the white ...
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Page 272 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 57 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 288 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Page 287 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 224 - And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised : three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you : it shall not be eaten of.
Page 258 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Page 318 - ... but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 60 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 240 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates ; neither is there any water to drink.
Page 74 - Then anon the air began to wax clear and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyes and on the Englishmen's backs. When the Genoese were assembled together, and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the Englishmen, but they stood still, and stirred not for all that.